The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Art is the signature of man.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.